Tints or Cambelt!!?!!??
17 June 2006, 01:55 AM
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well this shouldn't be a hard one . Tints can wait however if you are due a cambelt change and keep putting it off and the belt snaps this could lead to a costly engine rebuild maybe in excess of £2000 . Personally mate i get the cambelt done for piece of mind then save up and go for your tints.
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17 June 2006, 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted by jamesbWRXRA
well this shouldn't be a hard one . Tints can wait however if you are due a cambelt change and keep putting it off and the belt snaps this could lead to a costly engine rebuild maybe in excess of £2000 . Personally mate i get the cambelt done for piece of mind then save up and go for your tints.
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17 June 2006, 02:03 AM
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Originally Posted by watto52
the poor lad offers some serious advice and you guys shoot him down.
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17 June 2006, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
I'm on a limited budget.I don't know what go for. 
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toI had to push the car the last 100 yards home but the valve caps looked well trick, m8!
17 June 2006, 09:23 AM
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Similar but cheaper dilemma the other week, with only a pockeful of loose change, it was a choice of putting in enough petrol to get the car home, or buying a copy of "Fast and Chavved" at the Esso garage to get some free blue LED valve caps.
I had to push the car the last 100 yards home but the valve caps looked well trick, m8!
I had to push the car the last 100 yards home but the valve caps looked well trick, m8!
Hahaha, fast and mogolified is the worst magazine in the world, see they're offering a type RA in their new competition, i bet its got the full ripspeed treatment inside, enough poorly anodised stuff to kill off old people, awesome
17 June 2006, 10:36 AM
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I knew that the tints, carbon add ons and big black wheels on the car I bought used had to go when it stopped the local Corsa boys dead in their tracks whilst their mouths dropped. When I went to the local tint temple and asked for a quote to remove them the guy looked surprised. Wife's hairdryer cut out a few times in the process but still works. Tints looked quite good in the bin 
I could hardly see out of my blindspot, trying to reverse at night in an unlit farm was a nightmare... what wall/pond have I just landed in etc. I felt I needed to get a cap and cut myself shorter and get a couple of 14" subs with a 1kW amp to look the part.
I could hardly see out of my blindspot, trying to reverse at night in an unlit farm was a nightmare... what wall/pond have I just landed in etc. I felt I needed to get a cap and cut myself shorter and get a couple of 14" subs with a 1kW amp to look the part.
17 June 2006, 10:55 AM
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I could hardly see out of my blindspot, trying to reverse at night in an unlit farm was a nightmare... what wall/pond have I just landed in etc. I felt I needed to get a cap and cut myself shorter and get a couple of 14" subs with a 1kW amp to look the part.
Asked for a very LIGHT smoke/grey tint.
Car came back almost limo tinted
The company seemed suprised that I was unimpressed and complained. I didn't end up paying for it, but they said they'd charge to remove it. Fair doos, I thought, how hard can it to be to remove?
Drove round for a bit to try and live with it. Completely missed motorbikes and cyclists in the mirrors and blind spots - even with head lights on. On dim/rainy days or at dusk you could completely miss a white transit out the side windows if it didn't have its lights on (I did
). At night I could see nothing out the side windows, I nearly T-boned an Escort which pulled out infront of me from an angled junction and only saw it when it came into vision on teh front windscreen - which given the angle of the junction, was cutting it close. Final straw was nearly rear ending a Calibra parket right on a junction of a road I was turning into, I looked out the side window, saw nothing and pulled into the road, only to find as the car swung into the road a parked calibra right infront of me.3 days later, with Celly Thinner, Automotive Panel Cleaner, Glue and Tar remover, paint dryer gun, and head-gasket scraper it was all in the bin.
Except for the rear screen, which remains to this day, as I was scared I would ruin the heater elements by removing it. But without the sides tinted and a bit more light inside the cabin, it actually has some tranaparancy now so does look ok from teh outside. Plus it helps to stop me getting dazzled by front fog lamps and motorbikes on hi-beam (see high-beam thread
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17 June 2006, 11:42 AM
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The rear window tint also had to go on mine because I couldn't wave to thank people for letting me in, which I thought was rather impolite.
I had the car on idle with recirc and heater on full. Then I had extension cables into the car with the windows virtually closed. Then a fan heater running and the hairdryer - then I could just get at the edge with my nails and then peel it off. Once I saw how easily the sides came off I did the rear as well and the heater works fine. The tints looked well applied and were done by Mitsubishi UK before delivery. It needed to be hot enough that I almost couldn't touch it.
I had the car on idle with recirc and heater on full. Then I had extension cables into the car with the windows virtually closed. Then a fan heater running and the hairdryer - then I could just get at the edge with my nails and then peel it off. Once I saw how easily the sides came off I did the rear as well and the heater works fine. The tints looked well applied and were done by Mitsubishi UK before delivery. It needed to be hot enough that I almost couldn't touch it.
18 June 2006, 12:05 AM
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Originally Posted by jamesbWRXRA
Hi Bubba po . Mine is an MY94 WRX RA in white.What are you driving mate.
18 June 2006, 12:36 AM
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Just thought i'd humour you buddy as more than often on this forumquestion you do get some chav pratt ask this type of question .Nice bait though . U must be as bored as me late a night. How is the people carrier running by the way.lol . No hard feelings Bubba.
James
I just wanna make friends lol
. No hard feelings Bubba.James
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18 June 2006, 01:46 AM
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James, you seem 'game' .. (altho rather gullible i expect , for falling for the question in the first place) youll survive,and live to enjoy the forum oh, and sorry for callin' you a tit!
oh, and sorry for callin' you a tit!